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Grinding Up Saltburn Bank
These female athletes are grinding up Saltburn Bank in the 2026 East Cleveland Classic cycle race. They look powerful, focused, and gloriously free. In the 1890s, those same faces would have been handed a medical diagnosis. Doctors called it “Bicycle Face”.
Victorian critics insisted that women’s “delicate” bodies were simply not built for the ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/12/grinding-up-saltburn-bank/
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Skinningrove: Facebook History and Other Unreliable Gossip
Yesterday’s descent of Hummersea Cliff into Skinningrove. Terraced houses cluster around Kilton Beck where it meets Cattersty Sands. Rocky breakwaters hold back the North Sea, which is doing its level best to reclaim the shore. The wooden shoring in t ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/09/skinningrove-facebook-history-and-other-unreliable-gossip/
#EastCleveland #Skinningrove #19thcentury #folklore #history #IronstoneMining
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Lewis Hunton: The Boy Who Read the Rocks
Stand on the site of the old Loftus Alum Works and you feel rather small. These 213-metre cliffs are not pretty. For centuries, workers burned shale and processed aluminium sulphate here, poisoning the ground so thoroughly that almost nothing grows. The place looks dead. It seems more of the remains of t ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/08/lewis-hunton-the-boy-who-read-the-rocks/
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Hype for the Future 120G: City of East Cleveland, Ohio
Overview The City of East Cleveland, Ohio, is an early suburb of Cleveland located, of course, directly to the east of the central city. Today, the community is associated with the African-American population and is often portrayed as the most dangerous portion of the entire State of Ohio under select circumstances and definitions. Within East Cleveland, the general area is largely determined by the cultural connections to the inner city, including via the Nela Park Management and United […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120g-city-of-east-cleveland-ohio/
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Lieutenant Wilfred Littleboy: Remembered on the Day he Fell, 9 October 1917
No one can say for certain whether young Wilfred Littleboy ever scrambled down the steep bank to cross the new bridge over Skelton Beck and wander into Old Saltburn, with its whitewashed cottages huddled beneath Cat Nab and the gaiety of its fairground by th ...
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Along the Howl: Echoes of Old Marske
Marske can justly claim to be among the oldest settlements on the Cleveland coast. The lonely tower of St Germain, with its small cemetery, stands upon ground that has been holy for some fourteen centuries, the first church being raised there in the Saxon age.
For many generations, worshippers from Redcar and Coatham made their w ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/10/07/along-the-howl-echoes-of-old-marske/
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The Lingdale Mine Disaster of 1953
On this day in 1953, Cleveland suffered its worst ironstone mining disaster. At Lingdale Mine, an explosion claimed the lives of eight men. The blast was sparked when the flame of an acetylene lamp ignited gas released by a rockfall deep underground.
The morning shift had been underway when the fall occurred, 180 metres below the ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/24/the-lingdale-mine-disaster-of-1953/
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How to Dress in the Water—Edwardian Advice from the Shoreline
Cattersty Sands looked perfect this morning. The sun was out, the beach was almost empty, and the North Sea glittered like it wanted to be inviting. It was not. Nobody so much as dipped a toe in. I had half expected to see someone bobbing about in neoprene ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/05/06/how-to-dress-in-the-water-edwardian-advice-from-the-shoreline/
#CattersbySands #EastCleveland #Skinningrove #Edwardian #history
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Huntcliff: A Roman Lookout Lost to the Sea
It’s been a lovely day at the seaside, but I my eyes were drawn to Huntcliff Nab, the huge beetling cliff that towers over Saltburn. It's made of soft shales and is slowly being worn away by the sea and wind.
I imagined what the headland would have looked like almost two millenia ago, when the Romans built a lookout station on top of it. How much has disappea ...
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Cuckoos on the Move as Cyclists Battle Up Saltburn Bank
In the women's race of the Cleveland Classic, competitors ascend the formidable Saltburn Bank at the first of the event's four laps.
Cycling here, my ears were tuned keenly for that distinctive call of the first cuckoo of the year. Today marks Cuckoo Day, also known as St. Tiburtius' Day, traditionally the day when the cuckoo first sings. However ...
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Cuckoos on the Move as Cyclists Battle Up Saltburn Bank
In the women's race of the Cleveland Classic, competitors ascend the formidable Saltburn Bank at the first of the event's four laps.
Cycling here, my ears were tuned keenly for that distinctive call of the first cuckoo of the year. Today marks Cuckoo Day, also known as St. Tiburtius' Day, traditionally the day when the cuckoo first sings. However ...
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Cuckoos on the Move as Cyclists Battle Up Saltburn Bank
In the women's race of the Cleveland Classic, competitors ascend the formidable Saltburn Bank at the first of the event's four laps.
Cycling here, my ears were tuned keenly for that distinctive call of the first cuckoo of the year. Today marks Cuckoo Day, also known as St. Tiburtius' Day, traditionally the day when the cuckoo first sings. However ...
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Cuckoos on the Move as Cyclists Battle Up Saltburn Bank
In the women's race of the Cleveland Classic, competitors ascend the formidable Saltburn Bank at the first of the event's four laps.
Cycling here, my ears were tuned keenly for that distinctive call of the first cuckoo of the year. Today marks Cuckoo Day, also known as St. Tiburtius' Day, traditionally the day when the cuckoo first sings. However ...
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Cuckoos on the Move as Cyclists Battle Up Saltburn Bank
In the women's race of the Cleveland Classic, competitors ascend the formidable Saltburn Bank at the first of the event's four laps.
Cycling here, my ears were tuned keenly for that distinctive call of the first cuckoo of the year. Today marks Cuckoo Day, also known as St. Tiburtius' Day, traditionally the day when the cuckoo first sings. However ...
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Cattersty Sands—From Fretful Sea to Fragile Foam
A visit to the sea-side.
Back at home, we had woken up to a wet but mild morning. However, the scene at Cattersty Sands was a different world. A sea fret unfurled before us, though glimpses of blue peered above sporadically. Typically, the surf maintains a steady rhythm, a predictable ebb and flow. Yet on this morning, all semblance of regu ...
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Pig-Iron to Steel: Skinningrove’s Industrial History
Have you ever pondered the origins of Skinningrove, nestled in this sheltered valley leading to the North Sea? What led to its establishment there? I certainly have.
Back in 1873, when the Loftus Iron Company first erected two blast furnaces on that hill overlooking the valley, the iron-smelting industry was alread ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33468
#EastCleveland #Skinningrove #YorkshireCoast #19thcentury #ironstone #steel
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On me bike which meant I had to negotiate Guisborough’s busy town centre!
Surprisingly quiet.
The town cross is relatively modern but the steps are worn, perhaps part of the Medieval Market cross although a 17th or 18th century engraving shows circular steps.
Perhaps the engraving also shows the town's bull-ring which was located very near the cross. Yes, bull-ba ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30845
#EastCleveland #Guisborough #18th-century #BloodSports #BullBaiting #Regency